There was a time when specials like zero issues had significance. Then came the 90s and from then on everyone and their sister's company will have 0 and 00 and -1 and 1/2 and whatever else you can think of
In the case of Stormwatch, back when there was a Wildstorm studios before Mr Lee sold it to DC and for some weird reason most of his characters never survived (sort of made you wonder why DC bother to buy the studio, eh?), Stormwatch was the next big group from his studio after his own WildCATS
In Stormwatch, they are an enforcement agency reporting to the United Nations. Hence the team is definitely more international in terms of racial identity and villains. Their so-called history is something called the seedling program where young men and women of potential were brought onto the program for the training and subsequently activation ie to make their innate abilities pop up, so to speak and here in this zero issue we get an origins of sorts but the writer tries too hard, mixes way too much to make this an enjoyable read
Anyway, basically we open with Sentinel duking it out with Fuji while others are breaking away from their prison and slaughtering those who rescue them as well. We learnt then that Sentinel was merely training Fuji and the real Stormwatch team at that time consists of others. So when trouble hits the fan, Sentinel goes off to catch the bad guys only to discover that this bad guy is involved in one of his earliest missions and cue flashback
So that's the vehicle they used to show us how Stormwatch formed and thanks to Sentinel's musing, we learnt of an event that destroyed a lot of good men and women while transforming others like his dad into powerful psychopaths that are hellbent on death and destruction and general stupidity
But the villain of this issue is just a regular chap with gun going to kill those he deemed responsible for his brother's death. Kinda ho-hum when you think of all the high-end super powered people arrayed against him and the UN's space station and what-not and he didn't even do that well except for the fact that the station had shitty surveillance systems
Sigh!
Ratings: 3/10
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